3.0.0 1325 2022-03-02T16:28:31Z 2022-03-02T16:28:31Z Senate S 2019-05-06 116 ssfr00 Foreign Relations Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2019-05-06T20:41:12Z 2019-05-06 ssfr00 Foreign Relations Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. IntroReferral 2019-05-06 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress L000577 Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT] Mike Lee R UT N International Affairs Congressional oversight Foreign aid and international relief Human rights International organizations and cooperation Military operations and strategy Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents United Nations War and emergency powers International Affairs 00 2019-05-06 Introduced in Senate 2020-03-02T21:24:45Z Military Humanitarian Operations Act of 2019

This bill defines a military humanitarian operation as an operation involving the deployment of members or weapons systems of the Armed Forces where hostile activities are reasonably anticipated with the aim of preventing or responding to a humanitarian catastrophe or addressing a threat posed to international peace and security.

The President may not deploy members of the Armed Forces into a foreign country for a military humanitarian operation not authorized by statute or Congress.

]]> Military Humanitarian Operations Act of 2019 Display Title Military Humanitarian Operations Act of 2019 Short Title(s) as Introduced Military Humanitarian Operations Act of 2019 Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to provide that the President must seek congressional approval before engaging members of the United States Armed Forces in military humanitarian operations. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s1325is/xml/BILLS-116s1325is.xml 2019-05-06 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.